A Hessian Report on the People, the Land, the War - Eighteenth Century America (1776-1780)

A Hessian Report on the People, the Land, the War - Eighteenth Century America -As Noted in the Diary of Chaplain Philipp Waldeck (1776-1780). Bruce E. Burgoyne. Paperback, (1995), 2008, Index, 206 pp.

A largely unexploited source of information on life in colonial America is to be found in the diaries of those German soldiers who came to America as the so-called Hessians during the American Revolutionary War. Of all the diaries, that of Philipp Waldeck, chaplain of the 3rd English-Waldeck Regiment, contains the most thorough and all-encompassing view of life in America. His descriptions are interesting, detailed, and on a wide variety of subjects: churches, costumes, customs, economics, fishing, farming, Indians, religion, schools, slavery, wildlife, and nature in general.

Mr. Burgoyne is a recipient of the Benjamin Franklin Lifetime Achievement Award from the American Revolution Roundtable of Philadelphia.

Book #: B0252 
ISBN: 9780788402524